Gender and Historiography: Studies in the Earlier Middle Ages in Honour of Pauline Stafford

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The chapters in this volume celebrate the work of Pauline Stafford, highlighting the ways in which it has advanced research in the fields of both Anglo-Saxon history and the history of medieval women and gender. Ranging across the period, and over much of the old Carolingian world as well as Anglo-Saxon England, they deal with such questions as the nature of kingship and queenship, fatherhood, elite gender relations, the transmission of property, the participation of women in lordship, slavery and warfare, and the nature of assemblies. Gender and historiography presents the fruits of groundbreaking research, inspired by Pauline Stafford's own interests over a long and influential career. List of contributors ix List of abbreviations xi List of figures xiii Introduction 1 1. Fatherhood in late Lombard Italy / Ross Balzaretti 9 2. Anger, emotion and a biography of William the Conqueror / David Bates 21 3. 'Anglo-Saxon Chronicle(s)' or 'Old English Royal Annals'? / Nicholas Brooks 35 4. The tale of Queen Ælfthryth in William of Malmesbury’s 'Gesta Regum Anglorum' / Kirsten A. Fenton 49 5. Women, children and the profits of war / John Gillingham 61 6. Charters, ritual and late tenth-century English kingship / Charles Insley 75 7. Nest of Deheubarth: reading female power in the historiography of Wales / Susan M. Johns 91 8. Carolingian rulers and marriage in the age of Louis the Pious and his sons / Sylvie Joye 101 9. The cult of King Edward the Martyr during the reign of King Æthelred the Unready / Simon Keynes 115 10. 'Consors regni': a problem of gender? The 'consortium' between Amalasuntha and Theodahad in 534 / Cristina La Rocca 127 11. 'Public' aspects of lordly women’s domestic activities in France, c. 1050–1200 / Kimberly A. LoPrete 145 12. Property rights in Anglo-Saxon wills: a synoptic view / Julie Mumby 159 13. 'Hunnish scenes' / Frankish scenes: a case of history that stands still? / Janet L. Nelson 175 14. Assembly government and assembly law / Susan Reynolds 191 Professor Pauline Stafford’s publications in chronological order, excluding reviews 201 Index 205